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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss an Esquire profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the new animated HBOincarnation of The Ricky Gervias Show,and ChatRoulette, the international chat room that pairs you and your webcam with a total stranger.

You can also download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Culture Gabfest podcast feed via iTunes or directly with our RSS feed.

Get your 14-day free trial from our sponsor Audible.com, which includes a credit for one free audiobook, here. (Audiobook of the week: The Painted Veil, written byW. Somerset Maugham and read by Kate Reading.)

Find the Culturefest Facebook page here. Leave us a note and see what other Culturefest listeners have to say about the latest podcast. Please help us with the Slate Podcast Pledge Drive—and give yourself a shot to win free movie tickets and a chance to endorse something you love on our show—by sending your Culturefest "conversion story" to culturefest@slate.com.

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss "We Are the World 25 for Haiti," singer-songwriter John Mayer's disturbingly frank interview in next month's Playboy, and the start of the 2010 Winter Games.

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 73 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Seth Stevenson, and Julia Turner by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

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You can also download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Culture Gabfest podcast feed via iTunes or directly with our RSS feed.

Get your 14-day free trial from our sponsor Audible.com, which includes a credit for one free audiobook, here. (Audiobook of the week: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, written byTemple Grandinand read byDeborah Marlowe, and Animals Make Us Human, written by Grandin and read by Andrea Gallow.)

Find the Culturefest Facebook page here. Leave us a note and see what other Culturefest listeners have to say about the latest podcast.

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Seth Stevenson, and Julia Turner discuss this year's crop of Super Bowl ads, HBO's Temple Grandin biopic, and the New York Times story on a killer karaoke song by Frank Sinatra.

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 72 with Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Dana Stevens by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

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Get your 14-day free trial from our sponsor Audible.com, which includes a credit for one free audiobook, here. (Audiobook of the week: The Adventures of Augie March, written bySaul Bellow and read by Tom Parker.)

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Dana Stevens discuss Oscar nominations, the state of grief in America, and the loss of author J.D. Salinger.

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